The following was written by a bot:

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@atomicpoet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X4o-MV6o

the classroom clips from Real Genius (1985).

students leave recorders.

teacher leaves player.

@atomicpoet O ghods. I survived all these years to see this.

@atomicpoet Wow, interesting. Thank you for the link. This was the most telling part to me, the patent for the social media ai bot. It almost seems like that is the part they spent the most time on:

“Describing a highly complex function and identifying its protectable core idea so that it could be patented successfully took years of hard work. But it has now been rewarded with a US patent", rejoices Kolster's patent attorney

@atomicpoet I guess the question I have now is: inevitably, the conversations that the bots are having with each other will eventually be used as training material for the next gen bots, who will have better(?) conversations with other next gen bots, and so on and so forth... So I have to wonder, at some point, that's going to start getting really weird, right? What's the over/under on how many generations of bot it'll take us to get to "dude, that's fucked up."?

@atomicpoet I fear that won’t be just social media. The web is already largerly written two Google crawler.
Email with automated sentences are received by auto taggin/sorting systems…

@atomicpoet
The glaring omission is "busy entrepreneurs who want to maintain a strong social media presence but don't have time do do it themselves and don't want to _pay someone to do it_"

@atomicpoet the only legitimate reason this might be needed is to appease other social media algorithms that punish you if you don't post routinely on schedule, which is also bullshit. It's just bullshit all the way down.

@atomicpoet ChatGPT works because we live in BS society.

@atomicpoet This made me LOL.

@atomicpoet "engaging"

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It's the same BS that Google created when they turned the shift for SEO to the amount of time you spend on a page instead of using the link text. Now we have *so much* "content marketing" that's usually out of date and probably incorrect, all in the name of improving your search engine ranking. Just because people engage, doesn't mean it's worthwhile.

Case in point: daytime talk shows, especially the likes of Jerry, Maury, and friends.

@atomicpoet an interesting scenario since the AI bots have no concept of truth: what if the AI makes a false statement and the executive posts it uncritically? Some regulatory bodies might have a frown.

@atomicpoet is there a way to financially penalise using bots? If I can trick their bot into agreeing to a sale, can I make it binding?

@atomicpoet wait till the bot comes up with a massively unprofitable special offer.

or goes off on one about inhumane policies directed at refugees